Hello Deon,

 DG> When I set up a new node, I have in my config file:
 DG> flavour Hold

You can use that with each link to set the flavour for that link. That will
apply to outbound mail and files (flow files).

 DG> Hoping that will result in all packets being in the outbound as hold
 DG> (so the node has to poll to collect).

 DG> At the same time, I subscribe the node to some areafix and filefix
 DG> areas using

 DG> hpt afix ...
 DG> hpt ffix! ...

 DG> But these seem to be created as crash. (*.cut)

 DG> How can I get them made as hold too?

The flavour of netmail is set in your route config.

route hold 1:234/567 1:234/567.*
route crash noroute 1:234/567

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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